Nonstop flight route between Falkland Islands and Morong, Bataan, Philippines:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN), Falkland Islands and Subic Bay International Airport (SFS), Morong, Bataan, Philippines would travel a Great Circle distance of 9,877 miles (or 15,896 kilometers).

A Great Circle is the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere. Because most world maps are flat (but the Earth is round), the route of the shortest distance between 2 points on the Earth will often appear curved when viewed on a flat map, especially for long distances. If you were to simply draw a straight line on a flat map and measure a very long distance, it would likely be much further than if you were to lay a string between those two points on a globe. Because of the large distance between RAF Mount Pleasant and Subic Bay International Airport, the route shown on this map most likely appears curved because of this reason.

Try it at home! Get a globe and tightly lay a string between RAF Mount Pleasant and Subic Bay International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN):

• The furthest airport from RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN) is Mohe Gulian Airport (OHE), which is nearly antipodal to RAF Mount Pleasant (meaning RAF Mount Pleasant is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Mohe Gulian Airport), and is located 12,353 miles (19,879 kilometers) away in Mohe, Heilongjiang, China.
• The closest airport to RAF Mount Pleasant (MPN) is Port Stanley Airport (PSY), which is located 30 miles (49 kilometers) ENE of MPN.
• There is also a Joint Communications Unit providing the electronic warfare and command and control systems for the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force.
• Flights of Phantoms were rotated through the airfield until 1992 when they were replaced with Tornado F3s.
• Additionally, every Saturday LAN Airlines operates a scheduled commercial flight to Presidente Carlos Ibáñez del Campo International Airport of the Punta Arenas city in southern Chile, stopping at Río Gallegos, Argentina once a month.

Facts about Subic Bay International Airport (SFS):

• Because of Subic Bay International Airport's relatively low elevation of 64 feet, planes can take off or land at Subic Bay International Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
• In December 2010, Guam-based Aviation Concepts has set up fixed-based operations as a full-service business jet center at Subic Bay International Airport, which has made it Asia’s largest private aviation firm in terms of hangar space.
• FedEx Express closed its hub at Subic Bay on February 6, 2009, this was the first hub to be closed in FedEx's history.
• In addition to being known as "Subic Bay International Airport", another name for SFS is "Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Look ng Subic".
• The airport is also a base of a flight school Aeroflite Aviation Corp since 2006.
• The furthest airport from Subic Bay International Airport (SFS) is Brigadeiro Camarão Airport (BVH), which is nearly antipodal to Subic Bay International Airport (meaning Subic Bay International Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Brigadeiro Camarão Airport), and is located 12,290 miles (19,778 kilometers) away in Vilhena, Rondônia, Brazil.
• In 1950, Admiral Arthur W.
• The closest airport to Subic Bay International Airport (SFS) is Clark International Airport (CRK), which is located 33 miles (53 kilometers) NE of SFS.
• Subic Bay International Airport (SFS) currently has only 1 runway.